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Press Clippings: With Women’s Figure Skating now moving to center stage as the Sochi Olympics wind down, it’s a perfect time to look at Yuna Kim’s Gold Medal Winning performance from Vancouver in 2010. There has been so much attention focused on the American women (Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold) and Russia’s Julia Lipnitskaia, that …
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Press Clippings: A schedule of events for Wednesday’s day of competition at the Sochi Olympics, from the BBC. Times are GMT; adjust times for your own location. Check back here for updates and videos. Special Thanks to the BBC for developing this very comprehensive listing.
Press Clippings from the Olympic News Wire: 18 February 2014. The news you need before tomorrow’s competitions. Russian Beats Norway, 4-0. Battle of the Dutch Speed Skaters: Bergsma Beats favored Kramer in 10,000 Meters . Tina Maze of Slovenia rocks the Giant Slalom Course for her Second Sochi Gold Medal. Mikaela takes 5th in Olympic Debut. …
Press Clippings: The U.S. is missing Lindsey Vonn, one of our very best women skiers, at the Sochi Olympics. Vonn suffered a pair of back to back knee injuries in training that took her out of the 2014 games, but even though she’s not at Sochi, it’s always good to remember just how great and …
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Part two of the Olympic Film Festival. The videos are below are “click to” videos, and are hosted at YouTube (Many thanks to YouTube!) Debut of the Jamaican Bobsleeding Team Ski Cross Skiing Firsts Extreme Ski Cross Training Science of Sport-Team Pursuit Speed Skating Amazing Skiing Moments
Press Clippings: A schedule of events for Tuesday’s day of competition at the Sochi Olympics, from the BBC. Times are GMT; adjust times for your own location. Check back here for updates and videos. Special Thanks to the BBC for developing this very comprehensive listing.
Press Clippings: Ski Cross is considered a “freestyle skiing” discipline (i.e. like slope style, aerials) even though it also requires the skills typically associated with Alpine Skiing (expert navigation down a course and timed competition against other skiers). A ski cross course includes natural downhill runs combined with jumps and other man-made obstacles. On television, …
Press Clippings: A schedule of events for Monday’s day of competition at the Sochi Olympics, from the BBC. Times are GMT; adjust times for your own location. Check back here for updates and videos. Special Thanks to the BBC for developing this very comprehensive listing. Also-Please note that this schedule does not necessarily reflect the postponements of the …
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The Olympics are in full swing and we’re at the mid-point of the games. We’ve all seen enough know to know the big stories and big players. Through the Olympic Briefing series of Posts, we’ve been able to highlight the key elements of each of the big competition groups in the games, the concept …
Press Clippings: Curling is–surprise–one of the most popular Olympic sports, even though it may not be one of the most widely or instantly understood. The best analogy for curling is shuffleboard. The idea is simple: slide a highly polished stone (known as a “rock”) across a sheet of ice and into a target area. But …